The establishment didn’t hate Cruz from day one. It took some time. Cruz made his name in the Senate by loudly deriding them. They didn’t like that, but it was acceptable, because it was just politics. They knew that Cruz was raising his profile back home in Texas by positioning himself as anti-establishment. Whatever works—no harm, no foul. What they didn’t know was that it was also a ploy to raise his profile nationally in preparation for a Presidential run.
Cruz jumped into the Presidential race after only a couple of years in the Senate. To them, that made him an upstart who didn’t wait his turn. He crashed the primary that was supposed to be Jeb’s coronation. Look at who gets the nomination in the Republican Party—Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Romney—all guys who had been around forever and paid their dues. No noobs allowed.
The GOPe doesn’t hate Cruz because of his positions. They know that when push come to shove Cruz will vote for what they want. He’s proven that. The animus toward Cruz is because of how he went about raising his national profile and because of what he did to Jeb.
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.....Cruz defeated a GOP-e Rino in the primary to win the Senate seat. Second, what about Rubio? He came in the same class as Cruz did. Just a couple of years inti the Senate yet the establishment embraced him.